Our passions are ourselves.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
More Anatole France Quotes
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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